Country: Turkey

Committee: UNICEF
Delegate: Crisdeana Sivila~Minicucci

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

Unicef Prioritizes funding for most for children who are in dire need of assistance.
Opening Statement:
Syria breaks through leaving all refugees to disperse to neighboring countries and
Turkey is one of the many countries that is accepting Syrian refugees. About 270,000
Syrians live in camps run by the Turkish government. They get freedom but most cannot
work and need a permit to even leave the camps. Also, we are struggling with supporting
all refugees since we accept so many we can not even give them the basic necessities;
food, water, nutrition, sanitation, medical supplies and more shelter space. We need to
be prepared for more incoming Syrian refugees who are needing our help in Turkey.
Many people decided to leave for Europe in search of a better life, because life in Turkey
is unbearable. Turkey is struggling with children refugees going to school, due to lack of
motivation.
National Actions:
Syrian citizens live in fear of their safety. Last year more than 780,000 people went
through Turkey and into Greece after Europe and Turkey made and agreed on a deal:
making a building for Europe and Turkey to store more migrants for unaccompanied
minors to house 244 teenagers and at most 281. Nearly 1,000 arrived in march of 2016,
10,000 rescued at sea, and since we could not take in them all we had refugees waiting.
Nearly 2,700 of the 19,000 arrivals in Italy through the end of March were under 18,
and traveling alone. Most were coming from war-torn countries, and about half were
Syrians.
International Actions:
We have talked in the UNHCR since the Syrian crisis began in 2011, the UN has not
really helped us with our resources either. Turkey estimated to host over 1 million
Syrians have maintained an emergency response. 22 Camps were an estimated 217,000
people are staying then in 2014 81,000 stranded syrians. The number of refugees and
asylum-seekers in Turkey in 2015 is expected to rise to nearly 1.9 million, including 1.7
million Syrian refugees. UNHCR will continue to work closely with the Government of
Turkey to support protection measures and facilitate access to public services and

assistance available to both Syrian urban refugees and non-Syrian people of

concern.Europe is sending refugees back to Turkey if they enter Greece illegally. In
exchange, the European Union offered Turkey 6 billion euros (about $6.8 billion USD)
to help with the crisis. Now Turkey is scrambling to create long-term solutions for
millions of people that had expected to house families temporarily.
Recommendations:
Turkey would be grateful if anyone could help support the Syrians by supplying us with
resources such as; food, water, nutrition, sanitation, medical supplies and more shelter
space, we would love to take in ones coming from Europe but we are struggling with the
ones from Syria. In addition, we would love if people could help motivate Turkish
refugees to go to school to better their education, we could possibly make school
mandatory so they could get their basic education since we do have it provided for them.
Also, we would need more funds so we can help the lives of refugees. We dont have
many resources and wouldnt want their lives to end quickly because of extreme poverty
and basic necessities.
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